Beginning with the story of a former sex worker drifting through a small rural town in the South and ending with the wedding night of a young woman who learns from her new husband what it takes to kill a man, Nash writes across the complications of working-class women, rendering their desires with visceral prose and psychologically dissecting the fundamental root that threads her work: craving and the conflicts within.

'Disturbing and compulsive' - COSMOPOLITAN

‘To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness and visceral power of contemporary American fiction’ - MELISSA BRODER

‘There is darkness in Nash’s writing, but an undeniable emotional truth to her damaged and difficult collection of outsiders. Essential reading' - BIG ISSUE

‘Nash is one of the best writers alive’ - JULIET ESCORIA

‘No one can swirl sex and strange quite like Nash’ - BRIAN ALAN CARR

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